![]() ![]() ![]() Catt saw that suffrage at the state level could help strengthen the movement for a Constitutional amendment - and where complete state suffrage could not be enacted, Catt would settle for a partial solution. ![]() After reassuming leadership of NAWSA in 1915, she clashed with the faction led by the far more combative Alice Paul, who wanted to work for a constitutional amendment only at the federal level. Her relentless campaigning won Woodrow Wilson's respect and support, and ultimately led to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote. Dicker: first wave, Carrie Chapman Catt - president of NAWSA in 1915 and gave " Winning Plan", no children, radical Alice Paul - radical, influenced by suffrage movements in Europe, more radical than Catt, went on hunger strike that resulted in her being force fed A dynamic speaker and tenacious organizer, Carrie Chapman Catt was a powerful force in the women�s suffrage movement. ![]()
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